Reply #22: I guess I agree with Mass, in that

[WildEyedLiberal]

It's more the idea that the media is trumpeting Russ as being so different on Iraq that pisses me off. Russ' view of what should happen in Iraq is not very discernable from Kerry's, and the media is making him out to be the only candidate with a real plan, even though his plan is no more or less substantive than Kerry's or Clark's or anyone else's. And it is odd to me that Russ would brag about voting for the first 87 billion contract, which included a huge giveaway to Halliburton, which is why Kerry voted no. Kerry stated several times that he didn't want an invasion UNLESS inspectors were convinced that Saddam was hiding things from them and unless the UN decided that Iraq was in the wrong and authorized a multilateral strike force. When will Democrats like Feingold and Dean learn that the IWR was always designed to be a red herring to detract from Bush and his administration's 100% culpability in sending us to war?